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J. W, WOODRUPP.

WASHING MACHINE.

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JOHN W. WVOODRUFF, OF MITCHELL, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIPICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,931, dated December 8, 1885.

Application filed June 12, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J. W. Woonnnrr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mitchell, in the county of Davis and Territory of Dakota, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to washing-machines; and it consists in certain details of construction and operation of the several parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth in the specificationand claims, and pointed out in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of my device; Fig. 2, a vertical section of same on line a m, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 a detail perspective view of aportion of the cylinder and one of the buckets and boxes.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the boiler or water receptacle consists of two parts, A A, hinged to each other and supported in any suitable way, as by the supports B.

\Vithin the box or boiler is a revolving cylinder, constructed as follows: The cylinder is made in two parts, 0 O, hinged to each other at 0 so as to enable the clothes to be inserted and removed, and said cylinder is perforated at suitable intervals, as at a, throughout the entire body, for the purpose of admitting air, steam, or crater. Extending into the cylinder are three or more agitating-boxes, E, made V or cone shaped, the apex extending into the cylinder. The apex of the box is perforated, while the vertical sides 73 are unperforated.

At each end of the boxes I place a T-shaped bucket, consisting of a horizontal plate, F, attached to and supported bya vertical piece or plate, f, secured to the inside of the cylinder. The plate F extends outwardly on each side of plate f, as shown in Fig. 3, and thus forms the T shape. Openings hare Serial No. 168,504. (No model.)

made in the cylinder for the entrance of air, steam, and water to the boxes E. The cylinder 0 O, the boxes, and buckets may be of any suitable size and material.

The operation of my device is as follows: The chamber or receptacle A has placed within it a suitable quantity of hot water, or steam may be admitted thereto. The clothes are placed within the cylinder 0 and the machine rotated by means of the crank D and its shaft (2. This rotation carries the clothes against the boxes E and the buckets F, and they are agitated, thereby causing the water, steam, and air to be injected and forced upon the clothes. As each box comes upward, carrying the clothes, air is admitted into the boxes by means of the openings h and perforations e. The projecting edges of plate F tend to turn the clothes, while the space between plates F and f (which forms the bucket) holds some water, which is carried over charged with air. Thus it will be seen that while the clothes are being constantly turned and agitated air is being admitted to open the fiber of the cloth, and thus the washing is quickly completed.

It will be observed that the clothes do not get pounded and torn, for the boxes and buckets are rounded off on their projecting parts, and yet at the same time they act to agitate the clothes sufliciently for the purpose required.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A washing-machine consisting of an inclosing water-box,a and perforated cylinder to receive the clothes, and provided with a series of boxes projecting into the cylinder, and having at each end a bucket, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a washing-machine, a clothes receiving cylinder made in two parts, the body of the cylinder having perforations c, a series of-inwardly-projecting boxes made V or cone shaped, their apexes having perforations, and bucket F at each end of the boxes, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

, 3. In a washing-machine, a cylinder consisting of two parts, (3 G, the body of the cylinder having perforations for the entrance of water or steam, a series of internal and inwardly projecting boxes, E, perforated at the apex, and buckets at each end consisting of a 5 horizontal and vertical plate, and openings h from the cylinder to the boxes, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix nay-signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. WOODRUFF.

Witnesses:

J. W. BEATTIE, J. A. COPELAND. 

